That's basically the Press Secretary, but I think that would be a downgrade in job title from DOT Secretary for him. He would kick ass at that job though.
What would he do exactly? He's had a hell of a lot of problems as DOT lead.
The same thing he's currently doing: fail at his actual job but still be celebrated for being good at pointing out the obvious about fascists 😮💨
Create a new "Department of Calling Out Bullshit", problem solved
On the one hand, hell yeah!
On the other hand, John Oliver or Jon Stewart would probably be better at that..
I thought his job was being a non-threatening gay man.
You know, he has to be gay, but not in any way that a straight person might be too uncomfortable with. It’s not easy.
She'll probably promote him to another position he's even more unqualified for. The do-nothing secretary of sound bytes can't stop failing upwards.
If he’s good at verbal exchange but not so good at governing, maybe Harris could try making him a diplomat.
Maybe he could be US Ambassador to the United Nations, like Nikki Haley was. He wouldn’t even have to leave the United States that way.
Would probably be much better at something in the WH press room since that requires ONLY what he's actually good at, unlike a diplomatic position.
Too bad that going from a cabinet secretary to a WH staffer would be so insulting as to be unthinkable lol.
On second thought though, as long as there's a competent secretary of state to guide him, he might not fuck up TOO much at the UN..
he might not fuck up TOO much at the UN
See, the convenient thing about the UN post is that, even though it’s prestigious, it’s also not of much consequence because America doesn’t care about the UN.
Pete for SecState!
No faster way to ensure he’ll never be President than running the State Department. There were six people who went from Secretary of State to President. The last one was Buchanan in 1857, before the invention of radio, television, and internet computing.
The world is much smaller now, and it’s near impossible to consistently make decisions that align with the majority of Americans while protecting America’s international alliances and interests.
Honestly, appointing him to another position at all might doom his presidential aspirations. He kind of needs to be elected to something beyond mayor to show he's got the ability to win a campaign.
No faster way to ensure he’ll never be President than running the State Department
Might be worth it then, as long as he's replaced by someone actually qualified quickly enough.
I think I've heard this suggestion before. If we had a leaderly and charismatic secretary of state, with the global influences on American politics, and the world being as small as you've described, it might just as easily be the perfect route to office. What a better office to showcase how you'd run the country than sec state? I just think your sample size is too small for the conclusion. It's more about the candidate then that particular office, imo.
It's a sharp observation that democracy imposes a time penalty on foreign affairs; like, at that stage--diplomacy, war--it's very serious business, and the public isn't always going to have the a full appreciation of the sums, especially when it concerns long-term geopolitics. Despite that, there's a public referendum every four years. So initiatives as to affairs of state have a correlation between how fast they must work and how popular they have to be. Or, third option, they must be secret.
I hope that means she isn't listening to the billionaires who want Lina Kahn gone.
Me too that be huge mistake. But so far she been doing the right thing lets hope she continues to do so.
I am ready for a new Attorney General.
Can we impeach the justices that will hinder progress with this administration?
Plus you know, people in charge of the FUCKING judicial system shouldn’t have ties to war criminals where possible (considering we most definitely are war criminals, I’m not ignorant to that)
younger, more diverse than Biden
Not a high bar to clear
Given shapiros’s comments supporting Harris and walz at the Philly rally….
I would be surprised if he didn’t get a seat.
I doubt it. He legit told the campaign he was getting cold feet about leaving his role as PA Gov when they were in the final stages of screening him (who says that in a job interview tho?). I think he’s shooting for the top. He doesn’t want to be a vice anything
Vice President is the surest path to President in US politics.
It’s a good thing to be honest about that, tbh
Given his cv and everything I know about Democrats, it'll be Secretary of State.
I'm available. On second thought, I want to be a Supreme Court justice.
no one wants to be an embarrassment. why not get a real job like mime artist or lute player?
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Diversity of experience brings diversely of ideas. Why do you think Hollywood has been churning out so much of the same stuff over and over? Because it's a bunch of old rich white dudes with decades of experience in financing movies calling the shots.
Having a transportation secretary that grew up in the suburbs, had their first car bought for them by their parents, and has been driving everywhere their whole life is going to bring very car-centric ideas. A transportation secretary that grew up in The Bronx, took the subway and bus growing up, and only got a car when they realized they needed to because the only apartment they could afford was not near a line that could get them to work will bring a very different set of ideas.
Did I say writing teams? Did I say actors? Did I say directors? No, I said the FINANCERS. The studio heads. The ones making the final calls about what gets made. Are there some people of color? Some women? Of course. But Executive directors and boards running studios are disproportionately populated by white men. These are the studios that keep saying "More Star Wars! All of it! More superheroes! More Transformers! Reboot reboot remake sequel reboot!"
They can have hits (like Andor) but they are making decisions that show how little they understand their audience. Black Panther was released in February, the month studios save movies that they don't care about for since it's finally done with Oscar season. It was one of the biggest cultural phenomenons at the time and completely by accident.
What the hell! so if you're diverse you should be hired to run the government/ country... Sure buddy! Knowing how to or qualifications are a thing of the past then lol I don't care about color or race. No one should
Sounds like you do care about color and race because you're making it about that, when we're clearly talking about diversity of experience. Nobody is talking about not hiring a qualified candidate. It's very possible to have qualified candidates from different walks of life who will have different ideas about how to handle things. That diversification of backgrounds/past experiences leads to ideas and solutions that might not have been considered otherwise.
Diversity of experience is different than diversity of qualifications. I should have specified. No one is hiring unqualified individuals simply because they are "diverse".
Not caring about color or race is an ideal that I hope we can all reach some day. But right now, the effects of the racism of the past (a time when people cared about color and race in order to give advantages to some at the intentional expense of others) is still very much present. My father was born before Brown v. Board of Ed. My mother was born before the Civil Rights Act. The advantages they had simply by being born white (because of years and years of racist laws and policies) allowed them to get good educations and let me and my sisters, born 20+ years after "we solved racism*" with the civil rights act, to live a life free of poverty. If my parents had been born black, their quality of education would have been different, and the quality of life we enjoyed would have been substantially lower.
I grew up thinking "no need to worry about race, those racists of the past are all gone and can't hurt anyone anymore." But the decisions they made continue to hurt those around today. Even assuming things got better since the 50s, there's still generational wealth missing from disadvantages communities, wealth that people born then would have been available to pass down to their families today, but they were blocked from obtaining by force of law.
I sincerely hope you take the time to read this and understand why people want to include diversity as a part of hiring decisions. They are qualified and experienced enough to know that it makes a difference for many reasons.
I'm sorry where did anyone say the cabinet members would be unqualified?
You know they mean the DEI... Virtue signaling
you didn't answer my question
I don't get this line of reasoning. Diversity has inherent value in all matters of human resources and socializing.
Emotional intelligence is a four-fold better predictor of economic and family success outcomes than cognitive intelligence. Wonder how you'd fair on either metric.
Sure sure
The problem is that qualified is relative. What’s the different between a Harvard degree and random 4 year college in the boonies? There are a lot of factors that determine how good someone’s education was.
I hope she keeps Buttigieg.
Secretary of Owning Fox News
That's basically the Press Secretary, but I think that would be a downgrade in job title from DOT Secretary for him. He would kick ass at that job though.
What would he do exactly? He's had a hell of a lot of problems as DOT lead.
The same thing he's currently doing: fail at his actual job but still be celebrated for being good at pointing out the obvious about fascists 😮💨
Create a new "Department of Calling Out Bullshit", problem solved
On the one hand, hell yeah!
On the other hand, John Oliver or Jon Stewart would probably be better at that..
I thought his job was being a non-threatening gay man.
You know, he has to be gay, but not in any way that a straight person might be too uncomfortable with. It’s not easy.
She'll probably promote him to another position he's even more unqualified for. The do-nothing secretary of sound bytes can't stop failing upwards.
If he’s good at verbal exchange but not so good at governing, maybe Harris could try making him a diplomat.
Maybe he could be US Ambassador to the United Nations, like Nikki Haley was. He wouldn’t even have to leave the United States that way.
Would probably be much better at something in the WH press room since that requires ONLY what he's actually good at, unlike a diplomatic position.
Too bad that going from a cabinet secretary to a WH staffer would be so insulting as to be unthinkable lol.
On second thought though, as long as there's a competent secretary of state to guide him, he might not fuck up TOO much at the UN..
See, the convenient thing about the UN post is that, even though it’s prestigious, it’s also not of much consequence because America doesn’t care about the UN.
Pete for SecState!
No faster way to ensure he’ll never be President than running the State Department. There were six people who went from Secretary of State to President. The last one was Buchanan in 1857, before the invention of radio, television, and internet computing.
The world is much smaller now, and it’s near impossible to consistently make decisions that align with the majority of Americans while protecting America’s international alliances and interests.
Honestly, appointing him to another position at all might doom his presidential aspirations. He kind of needs to be elected to something beyond mayor to show he's got the ability to win a campaign.
Might be worth it then, as long as he's replaced by someone actually qualified quickly enough.
I think I've heard this suggestion before. If we had a leaderly and charismatic secretary of state, with the global influences on American politics, and the world being as small as you've described, it might just as easily be the perfect route to office. What a better office to showcase how you'd run the country than sec state? I just think your sample size is too small for the conclusion. It's more about the candidate then that particular office, imo.
It's a sharp observation that democracy imposes a time penalty on foreign affairs; like, at that stage--diplomacy, war--it's very serious business, and the public isn't always going to have the a full appreciation of the sums, especially when it concerns long-term geopolitics. Despite that, there's a public referendum every four years. So initiatives as to affairs of state have a correlation between how fast they must work and how popular they have to be. Or, third option, they must be secret.
I hope that means she isn't listening to the billionaires who want Lina Kahn gone.
Me too that be huge mistake. But so far she been doing the right thing lets hope she continues to do so.
I am ready for a new Attorney General.
Can we impeach the justices that will hinder progress with this administration?
Plus you know, people in charge of the FUCKING judicial system shouldn’t have ties to war criminals where possible (considering we most definitely are war criminals, I’m not ignorant to that)
Not a high bar to clear
Given shapiros’s comments supporting Harris and walz at the Philly rally….
I would be surprised if he didn’t get a seat.
I doubt it. He legit told the campaign he was getting cold feet about leaving his role as PA Gov when they were in the final stages of screening him (who says that in a job interview tho?). I think he’s shooting for the top. He doesn’t want to be a vice anything
Vice President is the surest path to President in US politics.
It’s a good thing to be honest about that, tbh
Given his cv and everything I know about Democrats, it'll be Secretary of State.
I'm available. On second thought, I want to be a Supreme Court justice.
no one wants to be an embarrassment. why not get a real job like mime artist or lute player?
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How about caring ONLY about "qualified" 😵
Diversity of experience brings diversely of ideas. Why do you think Hollywood has been churning out so much of the same stuff over and over? Because it's a bunch of old rich white dudes with decades of experience in financing movies calling the shots.
Having a transportation secretary that grew up in the suburbs, had their first car bought for them by their parents, and has been driving everywhere their whole life is going to bring very car-centric ideas. A transportation secretary that grew up in The Bronx, took the subway and bus growing up, and only got a car when they realized they needed to because the only apartment they could afford was not near a line that could get them to work will bring a very different set of ideas.
Look at the writing team of the acolyte and Tell me how it's old white men https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12262202/fullcredits/writer?ref_=tt_ov_wr_sm Fact is that anyone can write a bad story and bringing up Hollywood is not quiet the own you think it is
Did I say writing teams? Did I say actors? Did I say directors? No, I said the FINANCERS. The studio heads. The ones making the final calls about what gets made. Are there some people of color? Some women? Of course. But Executive directors and boards running studios are disproportionately populated by white men. These are the studios that keep saying "More Star Wars! All of it! More superheroes! More Transformers! Reboot reboot remake sequel reboot!"
They can have hits (like Andor) but they are making decisions that show how little they understand their audience. Black Panther was released in February, the month studios save movies that they don't care about for since it's finally done with Oscar season. It was one of the biggest cultural phenomenons at the time and completely by accident.
What the hell! so if you're diverse you should be hired to run the government/ country... Sure buddy! Knowing how to or qualifications are a thing of the past then lol I don't care about color or race. No one should
Sounds like you do care about color and race because you're making it about that, when we're clearly talking about diversity of experience. Nobody is talking about not hiring a qualified candidate. It's very possible to have qualified candidates from different walks of life who will have different ideas about how to handle things. That diversification of backgrounds/past experiences leads to ideas and solutions that might not have been considered otherwise.
Diversity of experience is different than diversity of qualifications. I should have specified. No one is hiring unqualified individuals simply because they are "diverse".
Not caring about color or race is an ideal that I hope we can all reach some day. But right now, the effects of the racism of the past (a time when people cared about color and race in order to give advantages to some at the intentional expense of others) is still very much present. My father was born before Brown v. Board of Ed. My mother was born before the Civil Rights Act. The advantages they had simply by being born white (because of years and years of racist laws and policies) allowed them to get good educations and let me and my sisters, born 20+ years after "we solved racism*" with the civil rights act, to live a life free of poverty. If my parents had been born black, their quality of education would have been different, and the quality of life we enjoyed would have been substantially lower.
I grew up thinking "no need to worry about race, those racists of the past are all gone and can't hurt anyone anymore." But the decisions they made continue to hurt those around today. Even assuming things got better since the 50s, there's still generational wealth missing from disadvantages communities, wealth that people born then would have been available to pass down to their families today, but they were blocked from obtaining by force of law.
I sincerely hope you take the time to read this and understand why people want to include diversity as a part of hiring decisions. They are qualified and experienced enough to know that it makes a difference for many reasons.
*We didn't actually solve racism
I'm sorry where did anyone say the cabinet members would be unqualified?
You know they mean the DEI... Virtue signaling
you didn't answer my question
I don't get this line of reasoning. Diversity has inherent value in all matters of human resources and socializing.
Emotional intelligence is a four-fold better predictor of economic and family success outcomes than cognitive intelligence. Wonder how you'd fair on either metric.
Sure sure
The problem is that qualified is relative. What’s the different between a Harvard degree and random 4 year college in the boonies? There are a lot of factors that determine how good someone’s education was.